diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 29261e9c..c9875695 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ addons:
 # the html output may have small formatting differences which causes
 # the test to fail
 install:
-  - pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+  - pip3 install --upgrade pip wheel
   - pip3 install sphinx==2.1.2 \
       sphinx-bootstrap-theme==0.7.1 \
       sphinxcontrib-bibtex==0.4.2 \